Webinar
Protect Margin, Buy Better: How AI Is Changing Purchasing for HVAC Distributors
Tariffs. Higher carrying costs. Customers ordering more cautiously. When conditions tighten, the instinct is to cut, but cutting the wrong things, like headcount, service levels, or safety stock, just trades one margin problem for another.
This session, presented in partnership with HARDI, walks through how AI improves the purchasing decision at every step: turning ERP and inventory data into something you can actually buy against, adapting forecasts for weather and seasonality instead of relying on a flat historical average, and surfacing only the exceptions that need a buyer's attention instead of demanding a manual review of every SKU.
Watch the full conversation with Jake Jenkins, Solutions Architect, and Nathan Harris, VP of Sales, at Blue Ridge for a grounded look at how HVAC distributors are buying smarter and protecting margin, not just when times are good, but when conditions are tight.
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What You'll Takeaway from this Session:
- How a governed data foundation turns messy ERP and inventory data into something you can confidently buy against
- How dynamic, adaptive forecasting accounts for weather, seasonality, and pre-season timing to cut overstock and emergency buying
- How exception-based buying frees buyers from manual order review so their time goes toward decisions that actually protect margin
Featured Speakers
Nathan Harris
Senior Account Executive at Blue Ridge
Blue Ridge
Jake Jenkins
Solutions Architect
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